Fairphone Open ships F-Droid Privileged Extension!

Fairphone has taken a
big step
towards making a fully free Android phone! They already have
Fairphone Open,
an alternate version of Android that does not include any proprietary
apps. The built-in Fairphone Updater makes it really easy to switch a
Fairphone away from the Google Android version to Fairphone Open. And
now, Fairphone Open includes F-Droid! That means it is a fully
functional device, removing the requirement to flash extra packages to
get an app store. It also means that F-Droid works without enabling
“Unknown Sources”. Then your Fairphone Open can automatically update
apps and it’ll have a smoother install experience where you just need
to press install once, and the whole process will finish in the
background (when you are ready for background updates, go to F-Droid’s
Settings to enable them).

F-Droid support in Fairphone Open is still beta, so for now, only
Privileged Extension
is built into Fairphone Open. So you will still have to download
F-Droid and install it as a regular app. It will automatically find
and use the Privileged Extension built into Fairphone Open. We are
working on an F-Droid installer as part of the Fairphone Updater to
make that process really easy.

For now, these are the steps you need to do to have the full F-Droid
experience with Fairphone Open: